Knowlton v. City of Port Huron

Plaintiff filed his bill of complaint in the circuit court for St. Clair county seeking to attack the milk ordinance of the city of Port Huron on various constitutional and other grounds, alleging that the ordinance discriminated in favor of local milk distributors against those from the outside"; was-an unlawful exercise of police power; and in effect sought illegally to stifle outside competition. In his bill the plaintiff described himself as “a distributor of Twin Pines Farm Dairy, a Michigan corporation.”' He sought to have the ordinance declared invalid and its enforcement enjoined.

Defen…